I am a graphic designer and constantly-developing web developer. I taught myself HTML starting from the moment we turned on our first family computer and I found out AOL provided a free whole 1mb space to make a webpage back in the late '90s (was it even as much as a megabyte?). Along the way I picked up some CSS. Thus, I grew up designing fan pages in raw HTML, often uploaded through FTP on places like FortuneCity and Tripod, and other long since defunct platforms. Similarly I have always been fascinated by the evolution of blogging platforms and social media (shoutouts to LiveJournal, Yahoo! Groups, Blogspot, Wordpress, Tumblr, Diaspora, Ello, Pillowfort, as well as the usual suspects).
Throughout that time I helped develop and design websites for an Americana band, a Thai restaurant, a Waldorf school, TenorGuitar.com, a startup company that designed interactive children's book apps, a costume shop, and last but not at all least, the bookstore Tom The Book Guy where I worked for nearly seven years.
Curiouser House Publishing is the company I am developing in my spare time, publishing classic literature and redesigning them from the ground up in uniform editions.
- I play the tenor guitar, rhythm to my brother's Texas-style fiddle. Together, we are The Reinhart Brothers
- I once designed a series of four billboards with antique post-mortem photographs
- I have illustrated two children's picture books: A St Nicholas Story, or The Fiercest Little Animal In The Forest and Thimble The Fairy's Acorns and Tea
- Book collecting!(/hoarding) and reading - I particularly enjoy fantastic literature of the mid-20th century and prior. Tolkien, Mervyn Peake, and James Branch Cabell are gods, as far as I'm concerned
- British comedy is my jam, especially the stuff PBS played 10-11pm weekdays back in the day
- Doctor Who (classic preferred, but NuWho is fun, too)
- Once upon a time, I was an Irish dancer
- I am obsessed with typography (and have designed a couple fonts myself)
- The only gaming console I ever owned was the Atari 2600. Pitfall 2 FTW
“As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean.” ― Mervyn Peake
David Lynch agrees:
“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.” ― David Lynch